Hearing set for Tent City lawsuit

10:02 PM,
Feb. 10, 2013

Lakewood Mayor Albert Isaac Akerman looks over an Ocean County survey map, issued Jan. 29, that shows 125 locations where people are believed to live in the Tent City encampment off Cedar Bridge Avenue.

Written by

Margaret F. Bonafide
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Township officials say they are frustrated by a slow court process stopping them from removing homeless people encamped on the township's property off Cedar Bridge Avenue. They say they are concerned for the homeless people, but also for neighborhood residents who say their children have breathing problems because of smoke from the camp's 80 wood-burning stoves.

A legal battle started by the town is coming to a head. The camp's leader, Steve Brigham and the Ocean County homeless, represented by attorney Jeffrey Wild of Lowenstein and Sandler in Roseland, are suing Lakewood and the Ocean ...